Saturated Canary

7.30.2016

After
announcing that I planned to close my shop at the end of this summer, I have received
many (MANY!) messages regarding people’s love of Saturated Canary stamps as
well as requests for more. I thought a
long time about it—I still want to pull away from the digital stamp business
and change the focus of my energies from stamp-creation to other adventures and
a new family focus. I do, however, have
stamps drawn and ready. My options are
to flood my shop with all the new, unreleased stamps or offer them at a huge
discount over the next year. I am
choosing the latter—as a subscription. I
am still planning to close my shop and all Saturated Canary- related social
media accounts. However, I have found a
way to easily provide some of you with continued access to my drawings (for the
next year) while still giving myself space and a way to transition into new
things. Please read below for more
information and, if interested, to purchase a subscription. *Subscriptions MUST BE PURCHASED BY OCTOBER 1st!!

One year digital
stamp subscription (October 2016 – September 2017)

~$110

~52 digital stamps (4 each month and special quarterly digis)

~ $2.12 per stamp

Half-year digital
stamp subscription (October 2016 – March 2017)

~$68

~24 digital stamps (4 each month)

~ $2.80 per stamp

All future
stamps after the Saturated Canary online shop closes will be exclusively available through subscription
only. I will offer the half-year
subscription again later in the year for April—September at the same price of $68. However, buying both separately will cost approx.
$25 more than buying the year package.

* Monthly stamps
(4) sent on the 1st of every month.

*Special quarterly
stamp (only available in the year subscription) sent October 1, January 1, May
1, and August 1.

All stamps are
sent as .jpg email attachments in a newsletter that will include coloring tips,
project inspiration, and links to check out.

So, I’ve been in a race with my husband all of 2015 for top
“reader” spot in our home.

He is on book 22.

So.

I’m just bitter.

And reading like crazy.

But mostly just bitter.

In an effort to turn my bitterness into something more
redemptive, I’m listing my top reads of 2015 below.I am currently reading If Nuns Ruled the World, Accidenal Saints, and Player Piano(I have decision-making issues).I just need to distract Phil from reading for
the next 20 days so we can end in a tie…Or maybe I can win.

I have a ‘thing’ for the Old Testament.Since I was a kid, I’ve loved the first half
of my Bible dearly.I don’t often get to
work that little nugget of info into conversations, but it is true.Enns’ book is challenging, brutally honest in
its question asking and answer seeking, and oddly/brilliantly funny.I have pondered ways to become his best
friend, but for now I will settle on awarding myself ‘biggest fan.’This book steadied my already shifting
faith.I read it in one sitting, 5 days
into 2015.

So it was also the biggest let down because nothing else
really measured up for the following 360 days.

I even took Niamh and Philly, and they loved the Lutheran,
tattooed, lady pastor (who occasionally cursed).It is rare that a chapter in her book ends in
a neatly tied bow...and I was super glad for a raw book like that.I thought about going back to school for a
masters in theology just to land an internship with her… but she lives in
Colorado, and I’m not sure about all that snow…and it would just be a whole
thing.

But anyhow.

She made an impact on all of us (it’s one of Phil’s 2015
books as well), and I think that is cool- when an author can speak to a whole
family, kids and all.

If a book could be the baby of the bible and an Anthropology
store, this would be it.It is such a
work of art and eclectic beauty…and its all anchored in Christ.I loved everything about it, from the title
to the very last word.I could literally
feel myself getting more and more comfortable in my own skin as the pages flipped.

Phil is also reading this one, right now actually.

So whatever.

Good job, Erika, for making books that everyone loves (and
that cause me to lose year-long marriage challenges).

“Original Sin” was giving me a lot of trouble this
year.I came to a point where I knew I
could no longer believe in it in the orthodox sense of the definition but did
not know what that meant or if I was just weird…or a heretic.And then my friend Tim suggested this book,
and it was the perfect compass to steady my bearings a bit.I found company and questions and even some
answers….and that is a welcomed relief after a long period of feeling very
alone and awkwardly trying to fit into an “evangelical” mold.

Note: Also, if you need a white elephant gift [i.e., ‘extravagant but burdensome gift that cannot
be easily disposed of’] for a conservative, young-earth, fundamentalist
Christian, pair this with Peter Enns book and a six pack of Stella.And, basically, you win.

*On a more serious note, I think these two books embody some
of the most important conversations Christians need to be a part of for the
next 100 years.Just my two sense.

He is a smidge too smart for me…and by smidge I mean
crapload.But while reading his words, I
started feeling understood.I felt
appreciative of the people who do the leg work in making room for different
views (specifically, on the bible’s ‘perfectness’) rather than locking arms and shoving the
searching/questioning hearts out.

I’ve cooked or eaten just about every recipe from this
book.The Chicken Chili is my favorite
(and perhaps the easiest and tastiest, too).I’ve been a part of two book clubs this year reading this gem.And I still find myself grabbing for it
weekly, whether to glean some goodness off the pages or to remember some
ingredient from a recipe.There is
something sacred about food, table, and friends.Some of my very favorite moments this year
were created in the mixture of those things… where heaven breaks into our
living, if just for a meal.It really is
communion in the truest sense.

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My name is Krista.
I love Jesus and tattoos.
My kids are loud and wonderful.
And my husband is hot.
We are messy and imperfect.
And trying to live the Gospel.
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